Despite Covid here is what we’ve done!!!!
294 inmates interviewed, 197 helped and mentored last year.
We pick them up at Halawa or Wahiawa, (with help from our friends) give them transportation and peer mentoring to get food stamps, birth certificate, clothing, social security card, state ID card, bus pass. Thanks to a grant from Adult Drug and Alcohol Division (ADAD)
‘They helped me find work, a therapist, a place and great friends. Now I have my own apartment, three jobs, including helping others who “max out” (serve their entire sentence)”
Here are services we performed with no designated funding:

• Support groups—We have three online support groups, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and they will continue. Go to our website: www.unitedselfhelp.org and click on the link.
• Warm Line – We voluntarily picked up calls from those who want support. At least 100 per month. That’s more than 2,400 calls in the last two years!
• Speaking to High Schoolers – How to stay mentally healthy — Last year during Covid –virtual and in person: Seabury, Radford, Moanalua, Kalani, Pearl City, Kapolei High Schools. With help from a partial grant from the Weinberg Foundation.
• Peer mentoring with women’s fund grant— Helped women with financial issues by granting loans – to avoid eviction, pay for meds, groceries, phone service, transportation to hospital, emergency lodging, computer assistance and repair, moving.
• Fourth Friday social— Starting In January at Hongwanji Mission Church, 902  University Avenue – Free dinner, guest speaker, play Bingo for gift certificates.—up to 100 consumers attend.

Here’s what we will begin again this coming year with your help

• In person support groups
• Part time jobs for mental health consumers
• Recovery classes, WRAP, BRIDGES,
• Warm line, speeches, school and public speaking

Thank you in advance for your support!
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Your donation can help many persons with mental health issues.
We need your help to do more!